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- Dictionarypluck/plʌk/
verb
- 1. take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place: "she plucked a blade of grass" Similar
- 2. quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation: "the baby was plucked from a grim orphanage"
noun
- 1. spirited and determined courage: "it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’"
- 2. the heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food.
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to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it: Caged birds sometimes pluck out their breast feathers. He plucked the letter from/out of my hand, and ran off with it. Do you pluck your eyebrows (= remove some of the hairs from them to give them a better shape)? [ T ]
The meaning of PLUCK is to pull or pick off or out. How to use pluck in a sentence.
9 meanings: 1. to pull off (feathers, fruit, etc) from (a fowl, tree, etc) 2. to pull or tug 3. archaic to pull (something).... Click for more definitions.
verb (used with object) to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken. to give a pull at; grasp: to pluck someone's sleeve.
1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken. 2. To pull out the hair or feathers of: pluck a chicken. 3. To remove abruptly or forcibly: plucked their child from school in midterm. 4. To give an abrupt pull to; tug at: pluck a sleeve. 5.
To pluck is to pick or pull a single item out of many, like a flower or a hair. As a noun, pluck is energy or enthusiasm, even when things are looking grim. Don't pluck only the best cherries off the tree: that's cherry-picking! Before you cook a goose, you need to pluck its feathers.
Definition of pluck verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
